Schneier, the founder of a synagogue in New York’s tony Hamptons, reportedly was expelled earlier this year following allegations that he had an extramarital affair with a congregant five years ago. More ▸

The Orthodox Union said it “cannot countenance a response to terror that resorts to wholesale demonization, advocates for the collective punishment of Israeli Arabs, or calls for the destruction or dismantling of Muslim holy places.” More ▸

The rabbi of the largest Orthodox shul in Teaneck, N.J., says Arab stone throwers should be shot and the mosque on the Temple Mount should be moved to Saudi Arabia. His congregation — and mainstream Orthodox institutions — shrug. More ▸

Rabbis Avi Weiss and Marc Angel face off against Rabbi Mark Dratch in dueling JTA Op-Eds about whether the Rabbinical Council of America’s centralized conversion system, known as GPS, is good or bad for conversion. More ▸